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Marseille (fra)

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Marseille ranks 86th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Shizuoka Prefecture, Vancouver, and Stuttgart. Memorable people born in Marseille include Zinedine Zidane, Petronius, and Honoré Daumier. Memorable people who died in Marseille include Eugène de Mazenod, Maximian, and Salvian. Marseille has been the birth place of many soccer players, and writers and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Marseille is located in France.

Marseille is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Marseille is the second-most populous city proper in France, after Paris, with 873,076 inhabitants in 2021. Marseille with its suburbs and exurbs create the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, with a population of 1,911,311 at the 2021 census. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 380 BC and 2002, Marseille was the birth place of 128 globally memorable people, including Zinedine Zidane, Petronius, and Honoré Daumier. Additionaly, 44 globally memorable people have passed away in Marseille including Eugène de Mazenod, Maximian, and Salvian.

People Born in Marseille

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People Deceased in Marseille

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Marseille were soccer players (43), writers (11), actors (11), athletes (10), and politicians (7),  while most who died were politicians (9), writers (5), religious figures (4), soccer players (4), and cyclists (2).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Marseille, including Zinedine Zidane, Eric Cantona, and Christophe Galtier. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Marseille, including Zinedine Zidane, Eric Cantona, and Christophe Galtier.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Marseille since 1700.